TikTok and Short Form Content for Developers with Linda Vivah

Screaming in the Cloud

English - June 28, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 87 ratings
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Full Description / Show Notes

Corey and Linda talk about Tiktok and the online developer community (1:18)Linda talks about what prompted her to want to work at AWS (5:29)Linda discusses navigating the change from just being part of the developer community to being an employee of AWS (10:37)Linda talks about moving AWS more in the direction of short form content, and Corey and Linda talk about the Tiktok algorithm (15:56)Linda talks about the potential struggle of going from short form to long form content (25:21)

About Linda

Linda Vivah is a Site Reliability Engineer for a major media organization in NYC, a tech content creator, an AWS community builder member, a part-time wedding singer, and the founder of a STEM jewelry shop called Coding Crystals. At the time of this recording she was about to join AWS in her current position as a Developer Advocate.

Linda had an untraditional journey into tech. She was a Philosophy major in college and began her career in journalism. In 2015, she quit her tv job to attend The Flatiron School, a full stack web development immersive program in NYC. She worked as a full-stack developer building web applications for 5 years before shifting into SRE to work on the cloud end internally.

Throughout the years, she’s created tech content on platforms like TikTok & Instagram and believes that sometimes the best way to learn is to teach.

Links Referenced:

lindavivah.com: https://lindavivah.com